Tag: martin ash
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Monday Link Round Up: May 25, 2020
News and music to start your week! The New York Times introduced readers this week to the Iranian Female Composers Association, members of which are included above (from left: Anahita Abbasi, Aida Shirazi, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh). Learn about this wonderful organization and listen in to the fabulous music being created. The San Francisco Classical Voice…
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The Amazing Mrs. Sirmen, aka Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen
Taking up our #ThinkOutsideTheBachs challenge, London-based musician Martin Ash offers engaging insights on the groundbreaking and innovative violinist-composer (also singer and keyboard player) Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818). Martin Ash is a viola player, folk fiddler, and sometime mandolinist, arranger and composer. His website is www.martinashmusic.com. The first of two posts about Maddalena, it focuses…